What was your path to becoming a therapist? What inspired you to choose this profession?
It was a very personal quest for me to heal myself of a nameless, invisible wound. The road to becoming a therapist is ongoing, and so far it has been circuitous and meandering at times, and more recently, driven and focused. I changed my career a few times, but felt I was getting closer to counseling with every job. Currently I feel I've come to a vista and have some foresight and direction. I am inspired by those whom I have encountered, who through phrase, or timely sentiment have shifted my perspective indelibly. These "encounters" germinated a thought, and grew a curiosity in me for human interaction as a means for all manner of growth.
Specialties
Depression
Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.
Anxiety
Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by persistent instability in relationships, extreme emotional reactions, and chronic fear of abandonment. People with this may also tend to be moody, experiencing a lot of high highs and low lows.
Adolescent mental health
Adolescent mental health focuses on adolescent-specific experiences including physical and cognitive development, social and environmental factors, sex, sexual identification and orientation, emotional processing, and substance use. Given the influence that parents/guardians have on adolescents, home life is a particularly important consideration.
Dissociative disorders
Involuntary disconnection from reality as a means of coping with stress and trauma. Occurs along a spectrum or continuum, but can have a serious impact on daily functioning and healthy relationship-building.
General Expertise
Depression
Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.
Anxiety
Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.
Careers
Designed to help people choose, change, or leave a career at any stage of life. Careers are often wrapped up in people’s perceived identity, therefore, any change can cause anxiety and/or depression.
Work Stress
Workplace issues are a common source of stress and can include interpersonal conflict, communication problems, gossip, harassment, discrimination, low motivation and job satisfaction, performance issues, and poor job fit.
Relationship Issues
Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.
Fees
$130
First Session
$130
Family Therapy
$130
Couples Therapy
$130
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Couples Session
Individual Session
Group Session
Clientele
Parents
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Children (5-12)
Adolescents (13-17)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Mindfulness Practices
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Coaching
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Existential Therapy
Experiential Therapy
Jungian Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Positive Psychology
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Training / Certifications
EMDR
Licensure
CA, LMFT, 129834
Education
Clinical Psychology, MA, Azusa Pacific University
Work History
I have been building a specialization in helping people through old trauma and recent traumatic experiences that seem to rob them of joy, and mess with their interpersonal and occupational lives. People often have symptoms they are not aware of; those are the ones that get us and keep us from experiencing the full-range of emotions, and our full potential. Erase these, overcome them, get through them, and there is a satisfying life waiting on the other side.
Location
492 Amoros Court, Santa Rosa, 95401, CA